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	<description>Gary Dalkin - Editor / Writing Consultant</description>
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		<title>Writing Magazine &#8211; Fact For Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new issue of Writing Magazine is out. As well as my usual news and market reports I have a lengthy article Fact For Fiction &#8211; considering when it is important to get the facts right, and when they can be manipulated to a writer&#8217;s advantage. Here&#8217;s a preview. To enjoy the full thing you&#8217;ll <a href='http://tothelastword.com/wmfact/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Objects in Dreams, by Lisa Tuttle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Tuttle has long been one of the masters of the deeply unsettling tale. Last year her short story Objects in Dreams may be Closer than they Appear opened Jonathan Oliver’s excellent anthology, House of Fear, a collection of haunted and otherwise strange homes. That was one of my favourite books of the year, and that Tuttle’s tale <a href='http://tothelastword.com/objects/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Shared Dream &amp; In War Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This review of two novels by Kathleen Ann Goonan, In War Times and that book&#8217;s sequel, This Shared Dream, originally appeared in slightly different form on the Los Angeles Review of Books. Kathleen Ann Goonan&#8217;s In War Times, originally published in 2007, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and the ALA’s <a href='http://tothelastword.com/goonan2/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often the SF news magazine Locus runs a top ten poll. The most recent poll closed at the end of November. It focused on the 20th and 21st centuries, with separate categories for SF and Fantasy novels and combined rankings for SF/Fantasy novellas, novelettes, and short stories. These were ‘write-in’ polls, so nothing <a href='http://tothelastword.com/personal-best/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Stories returns online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously mentioned, the world&#8217;s first Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories is coming back, and I will be writing for it. After three weeks in beta testing, today sees the official launch of the website, and here is a link to my first post, talking about some of my favourite books. Meanwhile here is the <a href='http://tothelastword.com/amazingnews/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Gerry Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 creator Gerry Anderson died today.  Some years ago I had the honour and pleasure of interviewing Mr Anderson for Amazon. You can read the interview here.]]></description>
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		<title>The New Amazing Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing Stories, the world&#8217;s first science fiction magazine, opens for Beta Testing of Phase 1 on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013. Fifty+ Writers Sign On to provide genre-related content! Experimenter Publishing Company Hillsboro, NH December 20, 2012 AMAZING STORIES are just one click away!TM The Experimenter Publishing Company is pleased to announce the  reintroduction of the <a href='http://tothelastword.com/the-new-amazing-stories/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>BlogINK nationwide blogger search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BlogINK, part of Harlequin UK, is offering a 12 month paid contract as MIRA Ink&#8217;s book-reviewing blogger. The winning blogger will be paid £250 a month for four posts and also receive a new laptop or iPad. The competition is open to UK and Republic of Ireland citizens only. Round one is now open for <a href='http://tothelastword.com/blogink/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Things Fall Apart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I read three articles worth considering for anyone serious about writing fiction. The first was The Widening Gyre: 2012 Best of the Year Anthologies by Paul Kincaid, written for the LA Review of Books. This piece looked at Gardner Dozois&#8217;s The Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction : Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, Richard Horton&#8217;s The Year&#8217;s Best <a href='http://tothelastword.com/fall/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My first review for the LA Review of Books</title>
		<link>http://tothelastword.com/goonan1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Dalkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to say my first review for the Los Angeles Review of Books is now online. The review covers Kathleen Ann Goonan&#8217;s two most recent novels, In War Times, and the new sequel, This Shared Dream.]]></description>
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